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"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
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"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
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"Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics."
"I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little."
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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